Guy Deutscher
גיא דויטשר
Born	1969 (age 54–55) Tel Aviv, Israel
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Spouse(s)	Janie Steen[1]
Children	2, including Alma
Website	www.guydeutscher.com
Academic career
Fields	Linguistics

Guy Deutscher (Hebrew: גיא דויטשר; born 1969) is an Israeli linguist.

Career[edit]

Deutscher is an honorary research fellow at the University of Manchester and was a professor in the department of languages and cultures of Ancient Mesopotamia at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. He received an undergraduate degree in mathematics at University of Cambridge, before going on to earn a Ph.D. in linguistics there. After that he undertook research in historical linguistics at St John's College, Cambridge.

Deutscher is the father of Alma Deutscher, a former child prodigy composer and musician.

Awards and honours[edit]

• 2011 Royal Society Prizes for Science Books, shortlist, Through the Language Glass

Selected works[edit]

Books[edit]

• Deutscher, Guy (2000). Syntactic Change in Akkadian: the evolution of sentential complementation. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198299882. OCLC 875571581.
• ——— (2005). The Unfolding of Language: an evolutionary tour of mankind's greatest invention. New York: Metropolitan Books. ISBN 9780805079074. OCLC 57311730.
• ——— (2010). Through the Language Glass: why the world looks different in other languages. New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 9780805081954. OCLC 727479951.

Edited by[edit]

• ———; Kouwenberg, N. J. C., eds. (2006). The Akkadian language in its Semitic context: studies in the Akkadian of the third and second millennium BC. Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden. Vol. 106. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten. ISBN 9789062583171. OCLC 70064010.

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• American Scientist: An interview with Guy Deutscher (Web Archive copy)
• Interview with Guy Deutscher on the evolution of language
• Does Your Language Shape How You Think? a NYT Magazine article by Guy Deutscher adapted from his book Through the Language Glass
• Standing on the Shoulders of Clichés a lighthearted piece about clichés and their contribution to the world